np - April Showers Mix

By Mr. Moderator on Apr 4, 2008

Thought I'd share a few songs that have been bouncing around my head the last 24 hours. Enjoy!

Thanks for bringing up those duds on Arthur, Sammy. They reminded me of my second-favorite song on that album and led me to an outtake I'd never heard before.

The Kinks, "Australia"

The Kinks, "Mr. Shoemaker's Daughter"

This bonus track from The Smoke's first album smokes. Too bad the rest of that album, excluding "My Friend Jack" song, which is pretty good and which we all know from psych comps, is as generic as that sort of '60s psych-pop got.

The Smoke, "Playing with Magic"

I've provided a couple of the poppier songs from the latest Stephen Malkmus album, Real Emotional Trash. You might dig them. I would have given you the epic, jamming title track, but that might have been giving away 50% of what works best on the album.

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, "Out of Reaches"

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, "Gardenia"

Some of you know how much I like Jeffrey Lee Pierce's Wildweed. Not a "great" album but a cool one.

Jeffrey Lee Pierce, "Cleopatra Dreams On"

The Tom Verlaine tracks come from a relatively recent album solo album, Songs and Other Things, that's as strong as anything I've heard from him in years. In other words, it has a pulse.

Tom Verlaine, "From Her Fingers"

Tom Verlaine, "The Day On You"

Comment from: Mr. Moderator [Member]
Hey, while we're checking out rainy day tracks, I just found an early version of The Stones' "Shine a Light" that was initially recorded by Mick Jagger jamming with Leon Russell. It's from 1970, and it's called "Get a Line On You". You can check it out at Boogie Woogie Flu:

http://boogiewoogieflu.blogspot.com/2008/04/shine-light.html

I prefer it to the Exile version, but then I'm a big Leon Russell fan.
04/04/08 @ 23:19

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